César Izquierdo, professor at School of Theology, publishes "El Mediador, Cristo Jesús" (The Mediator, Jesus Christ).
The publication presents and develops the figure of Christ as mediator and offers new perspectives on the understanding of the Christian mystery.
The University professor and Associate Dean of the School of Theology César Izquierdo has published The Mediator, Jesus Christ. Edited by the Library Services de Autores Cristianos (BAC), it is aimed at scholars of Christology and readers with some theological preparation.
Professor Izquierdo explains that his work presents and develops the figure of Christ the Mediator with a double purpose: "As a theological category that offers renewing perspectives for the understanding of the Christian mystery, and as a way of access close to man and respectful of the reality of the Savior received in the Church".
César Izquierdo Urbina (1953), priest of the diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño, is Full Professor of Fundamental Theology at the School of Theology of the University of Navarra. Professor Izquierdo's research focuses on tradition in the Church, method in theology, the thought of Maurice Blondel, the theology of Revelation and Christology. In addition, since 2009 he has been director of the journal Scripta Theologica. In 2012 he was appointed a member of the Theological Advisory Commission of the lecture Spanish Episcopal Conference.
The Mediator, Jesus Christpublishing house: BAC - Library Services de Autores Cristianos
Collection: programs of study and essays
ISBN: 978-84-220-1958-9
In Jesus, and through Jesus, God goes out to man's meeting and awaits his response of adhesion and love through faith in Christ himself. The awareness that Christ had of himself is the awareness that he has of being the Son of God.
"There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Tim 2:5). The mediation of Christ has occupied a significant place in the various Christologies, particularly when dealing with the saving mission statement of the Incarnate Word. It is worth expanding this outline and presenting Christ, in the first place, as mediator in his own being; he is the Mediator between God and mankind because in him the divine and the human meet in a unique fullness of reality. The Mediator, Christ Jesus, unfolds his action in the saving mission statement .